In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.
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I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of fully engaging with life until the very end.
Mario Vargas Llosa conveys a powerful message about the significance of truly living rather than merely existing. He suggests that the saddest fate for anyone is to reach the end of their life without having genuinely experienced it, encouraging a vibrant and active approach to living.
Themes
LifeLivingExperienceExistenceFulfillment
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech about pursuing passions.
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When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Nowadays, this has changed a lot - fortunately for writers and readers. There is much more integration.
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Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.
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